Does anybody use a relatively unknown or esoteric language?

[Breadpudding]

Hello everyone,

Does anybody use a relatively unknown or esoteric programming language on a regular basis? One of the languages I use is called SourcePawn. The reason I use it is because it's the only programming language capable of making plugins for SourceMod(software used to modify games running on the Source engine). What do you use?

~Breadpudding

[Sauron]

Does Erlang count?

 

I also use this at the moment.

[reniat]

At my work we have an in-house language that was made as an abstraction above Oracle because 20 someodd years ago they threatened to raise our contract price and we said "well not if we make you replaceable!".

 

As much as I love stickin it to Oracle.... maintaining this language and the scripts written in it has been a nightmare lol. Luckily it's only used in legacy systems nowadays and we have new backend technologies for all the newer development.

 

Just goes to show how in-house or esoteric doesn't always mean good lol

[straight_stewie]

4 hours ago, Breadpudding said:

Does anybody use a relatively unknown or esoteric programming language on a regular basis?

I've made a few different interpreters and compilers for BrainFuck, which I'm starting to believe is so well known that it's no longer esoteric. Does making interpreters/compilers for a language count as using that language?

[Breadpudding]

On 4/15/2019 at 5:41 PM, straight_stewie said:

I've made a few different interpreters and compilers for BrainFuck, which I'm starting to believe is so well known that it's no longer esoteric. Does making interpreters/compilers for a language count as using that language?

I wouldn't count that as using the language. Using the language means actually programming something with it. On an unrelated note, I think the last thing I did with brainfuck was make an x86 bootloader that executed brainfuck.

[Dat Guy]

I enjoy playing with Dyalog APL once in a while. It's amusing, to say the least. Sadly, it's not really viable for distributable applications, but its .NET capabilities give me interesting chances.

[Guest]

I wrote a small scripting language once that I should expand. 

https://github.com/hislittlecuzin/Scripting-Language

[wasab]

1 hour ago, fpo said:

I wrote a small scripting language once that I should expand. 

https://github.com/hislittlecuzin/Scripting-Language

You need an interpreter and compiler for it. 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, wasab said:

You need an interpreter and compiler for it. 

It’s an interpretive language. 

 

The interpreter is written in C#

[Breadpudding]

7 hours ago, fpo said:

I wrote a small scripting language once that I should expand. 

https://github.com/hislittlecuzin/Scripting-Language

While it's an interesting idea: I can't see the code for it, I'm not a fan of C#, and it lacks the ability to use functions. With some development(and maybe making it open source) it could become a language that's easy to implement in programs as a scripting language. Best of luck to you!

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Breadpudding said:

While it's an interesting idea: I can't see the code for it, I'm not a fan of C#, and it lacks the ability to use functions. With some development(and maybe making it open source) it could become a language that's easy to implement in programs as a scripting language. Best of luck to you!

I spent a single day or afternoon working on it. I don’t think I dumped source code. 

[wasab]

On 4/17/2019 at 5:37 PM, fpo said:

It’s an interpretive language. 

 

The interpreter is written in C#

You also need to make sure it is Turing complete 

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, wasab said:

You also need to make sure it is Turing complete 

Wut

 

i spent an afternoon working on it. I haven’t don me anything with it since.